The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.
Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
History: A distillation of rumor.
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.
The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.
Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
Thought is the parent of the deed.
A man perfects himself by working.
All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.
The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
A man lives by believing something.
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
The genuine essence of truth never dies.
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
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